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| When I first began investigating United Flight 823 I discovered, during a search of an aviation website, that the pilot of Flight 823, Oliver E. Sabatke, was in the site's database. I assumed I was going to find more information regarding the Parrottsville crash. | When I first began investigating United Flight 823 I discovered, during a search of an aviation website, that the pilot of Flight 823, Oliver E. Sabatke, was in the site's database. I assumed I was going to find more information regarding the Parrottsville crash. | ||
| - | I sent an inquiry with the basic information of the Parrottsville crash. | + | I sent an inquiry with the basic information of the United Airlines Flight 823, 1964 Parrottsville crash. |
| A few hours went by until I received an intriguing response that the website only dealt with //military accidents//. So, Capt. Sabatke had also been involved in some type of different mishap-apparently while serving as a U.S. Navy pilot. | A few hours went by until I received an intriguing response that the website only dealt with //military accidents//. So, Capt. Sabatke had also been involved in some type of different mishap-apparently while serving as a U.S. Navy pilot. | ||
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| The report arrived and I was not disappointed. The photocopy was in poor condition, but the clearest words stood out and said, **"While in traffic over tower, engine conked three times. Emergency fuel pump was on. Engine went dead completely. Attempts to revive with primer were useless. Down wind water landing was safest compared with straight ahead open sea landing or lagoon because of boat pool small craft."** | The report arrived and I was not disappointed. The photocopy was in poor condition, but the clearest words stood out and said, **"While in traffic over tower, engine conked three times. Emergency fuel pump was on. Engine went dead completely. Attempts to revive with primer were useless. Down wind water landing was safest compared with straight ahead open sea landing or lagoon because of boat pool small craft."** | ||
| - | The reason the photocopy was in such poor condition is because the original had been typed in poor conditions. Ensign Sabatke had been flying a training mission in a Grumman[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F6F_Hellcat F6F-3 Hellcat]] (#42537) on the Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 30, 1944. On another section of the report I read the words: **"Plane sunk in ocean"**. | + | The reason the photocopy was in such poor condition is because the original had been typed in poor conditions. Ensign Sabatke had been flying a training mission in a Grumman[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F6F_Hellcat|F6F-3 Hellcat]] (#42537) on the Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 30, 1944. On another section of the report I read the words: **"Plane sunk in ocean"**. |
| My position on how Captain Sabatke spent his final moments can be described as speculative. I would be the first to admit it. But how far-fetched is it when one considers the survival instinct that is present in humans-especially when one finds himself in such daunting circumstances? | My position on how Captain Sabatke spent his final moments can be described as speculative. I would be the first to admit it. But how far-fetched is it when one considers the survival instinct that is present in humans-especially when one finds himself in such daunting circumstances? | ||
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